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(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) I graduated from Luther Seminary way back in 1979. At that time it was moderate to liberal. Today, it is radically liberal. Over a year ago Luther hired a “queer theologian“. Luther has brought in transgender preachers at chapel. Luther has observed National Coming Out Day and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Luther has brought in womanist preachers and others who have prayed to “God the Mother“. Luther held a Native American spirituality worship service with prayers to the Great Spirit and burning sage in the pagan practice of smudging. I could go on and on. But look at the below chart and see how drastically Luther has fallen in attendance, being forced to sell off some of its land and buildings (it is the blue line below). And note that the other seminaries of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are also shrinking.
As the Good Book says, you reap what you sow. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock
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(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Mark Hanson, bishop emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, recently came out with the below video speaking against “the weeds of Christian Zionism and White Christian Nationalism“. It was during Hanson’s liberal leadership that the ELCA in 2009 voted to ordain practicing homosexual pastors, which caused a huge split in that denomination. The ELCA has lost 40 percent of its membership since its founding in 1988. Hanson also has defended “children who are transitioning” (to the opposite sex). Hanson preached a sermon in which he claimed that Jesus was mean and hurtful in His language to the Syrophoenician woman. According to Hanson, Jesus used despicable language toward her, but then Jesus changed His mind and helped her. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock PS For Hanson’s sermon claiming Jesus used mean language and needed to be corrected, listen to minute 35:24 in link below (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Recently President Trump declared there are only two genders. Elizabeth Eaton, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has stated that everyone is not either male or female, there is a spectrum. In a new statement (below), Eaton again condemns Trump and the way he is enforcing America’s immigration laws.
If you look at the last three press releases from the ELCA, two are against Trump and one is about healing from racism. Whatever happened to saving the lost by bringing them to Christ? That is something one does not hear about from Eaton. She told a Chicago newspaper that, if Hell exists, she believes it is empty. She has also stated that the business of the Church is not so much about saving souls. So what is the business of the Church? From the ELCA’s press releases, it appears to be promoting liberal politics. And one will never hear a word for the protection of unborn children from the head bishop. A few years ago before Roe v. Wade was overthrown, Eaton went to the White House to lobby in favor of abortion rights. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (Read here) (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Bishop Stacie Fidlar of the Northern Illinois Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is staunchly against the belief that there are only two genders, even though that is what Jesus taught in Matthew 19:4. She claims to love transgender, non-binary and non-conforming people. But part of loving people is telling them the truth, and if God created a person a male then you are lying to tell him he can be a female. And it is not loving to destroy children by giving them hormone blockers and destructive surgeries. With leadership like this, no wonder ELCA membership is shrinking into oblivion. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (See here.)  |
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